On Sunday, Nov 10, 2002, at 11:54 US/Pacific, rowdyh wrote:
> Drieux.
> Where was all this righteous indignation about DD 214s when we were
> invading Haiti? Where was it when we attacked Serbia without a UN
> resolution? Where was it?
My compliments to your wit, presuming of course you are not
attempting to advocate
a) opposition to UN Peace Keeping Missions
b) support for genocide, whether espoused as 'ethnic cleansing'
or in what ever garb the fashion may take...
I will of course defer to the democrats in our midst, but I do
seem to recall that many vets supported the draft-dodgers such
as the Draft-Dodger-In-Chief George "Daddy got me into a deprecated
technology" notTree,
Gnewt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, et al, in the 'righteous indignation'
against the Evil Clintons Vile Onslaught against the Dictatorship
for Life, an invasion that sunk into becoming one more UN Peace Keeping
Mission. As for the 'attacked Serbia' - you really will need to clarify
if you mean when the Evil Clinton backed the Vile NATO kabal to support
the islamicist extremists rebels in bosnia against the White Christian
Serbia, or do you mean the totally botched air campaign against
Greater Serbian Proper with regards to the Suppression of White
Christian
Serbians protecting Christendom from the Vile Onslaught of Islamicist
Extremists.
At the time I was rather enjoying the rhetorical devices about 'no more
nation building' - especially in the light of their lack of kohesion as
to what exactly the 'mission' had been in vietnam - what with the vet
community itself still split between those who supported the 'hearts
and minds' "stuff" and those who really knew that why if ONLY they had
allowed unrestricted submarine warfare.... All made glorious with the
current 'differences of perspective' between say how the 82nd reported
their current 'sweep and secure' operations in 'pacified' Afghanistan,
and how the Special Warfare Community reported those very same ops -
as if someone had opted to use the Aurther Anderson accounting firm
to 'book out' the Enron Style 'intermediation' between fact and
truthfulnes.
Even though, apparently, judging by the liberal media coverage, and the
habit of the current administration to refer to 'the war in afghanistan'
as IF it were a past tense verbal thingie... You know, like 'no nation
building' and all of that jazz.
I guess my problem remains, why hasn't the draft-dodging community been
able to make kissy face with itself? Why do the Rush Limbiots still
have issues with the other folks who were draft dodgers and vice
versa????
Can't you folks get over your 'big boy machismo' moments about who took
the really butch anti-draft stand...
I know I'm willing to back my VVAW brothers, as well as the John
Birchers in the
tribe, and we came out to back our Navy Vet Brother Country Joe when he
brought the Wall to Bezerkley, even dragged my GenXers to the 30th
Anniversary
of "The Summer of Love" - having failed to attend the original due to
prior engagements, always sorta promised myself to take the rain check,
as well as to give the 'kiddies' a chance to get it touch with their
cultural roots.
So yeah, while the civilian community is all stoked about resolving who
was right about which war, at least, at the end of the day, the vet
community
falls back upon one core and cherished principle.... The goal of war is
to get back to peace time so that we can make liberty call... A reality
check that seems to keep bouncing everytime that the draft-dodgers get
confused about which rhetorical device they are backing this time...
When one of my 'home boys' came back from Grenada and ran into the YAF,
and took the ration of 'flag waving draft-dodging
commieKillerWannaBeIsms'
from them- he then dropped the hammer that while they had been Yapping,
he had been in on the fun in the sun.... And all I could tell mojo was
how far those kiddies still have not progressed. Still long on chat, and
totally unwilling to go where their rhetoric rambles. Why Gosh, just
like
the current crisis in america - bogged down in vietnam^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
afghanistan,
but of course without the White Shiney Hiney's of Suburban College Boys
hanging
in the breaze exposed to the prospects of becoming the cannon fodder, I
guess
keeping track of that 'nation building operation' is still not Chic.
Gosh,
just like what a lot of folks from the Moratorium were concerned about,
what
with Nixon having axed the draft.... On the upside there is still some
ability to
focus on the prospects of maybe having that
ShineyHineyWhiteBoyFromTheBurbs
in the white house - gosh, follow through on his rhetoric, and actually
embark upon a 'pre-emptive defensive war'... Like I am just sooooo
holding
my breath on that occuring any time soon.....
Now don't get me wrong I have a lot of respect those who dodged the
draft because
they had solid and sound ethical commitment to live the life they
advocated. Just
as I am not impressed at all by anyone from the Vet Community who
spaces out
the differences between a 'legitimate operation' and 'illegal
operations' - as
may have been the case with the Maryland Sniper, and, oh, say the
mining of
the nicaraguan harbors without posting the NOTAMS as required under
international
law - but if I recall the President at that Time Dodged the Draft by
hiding
out in Hollywood allegedly attached as a 'cavalryman' to a 'signal corp
unit',
but then again as a life long AFL-CIO type you know how those types
are, and
the military can only work on the base material they are given.... so
we can
all understand that complete lack of moral fibre and all....
Why Gosh, that would mean that the Vet Community were a non-homogenous
group,
on par with there being gays, women, negoes and jews in both the
democratic
and republican parties... SHOCK! SHOCK! be still my beating heart!!! I
mean
do you have any idea how hard it is at times to get the folks from the
black
project community out? Yeah, tell me about those Act-Up Pride Parade
Approaches,
and having to keep the card carrying union dues paying members of the
WarMonger
Community from getting all Huffy at our closeted members.... As well as
getting
our closeted members up and on the Big Bus with the rest of us that
yeah, it's
been this way as long as I can remember, but be loud be proud, we're
here and
we're what ever we want to be....
So Me, I'm back to kitten herding amongst the Vet Community, will
someone
please try to get those civilians organized into something that will
pass
as an organized rabble... When you folks finally figure out where the
whole
Civilian Community really stands on issues, Please send us your official
representative with your official Civilian Community Agenda and
Platform,
for the better part of the last 40 years you folks have been way too
fractured to be in any sense authoritative about where y'all stand on
issues.
ciao
drieux
---Not to put too fine a point on the problem, let's be honest,
Doing Time In Vietnam
was not a really good draft dodge, that could be at the core of the current democratic party malaise.... That the Republicans have been able to mostly get over the problem, as we saw with the 'pro-vet' position that Dubya showed McCain at least shows that they have been able to overcome their fears about being public about being draft-dodgers and anti-vets...
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